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...Misalliance Shaw was even more unbridled than his characters : grown men claw the carpet in temper fits, airplanes fall out of the sky, pistols are cocked, china is smashed, women are chased through heather and hall. If family life has seldom been so discredited, it has seldom possessed such genuine if turbulent charm. Misalliance has, to be sure, its limitations. It could stand cutting; and though its method conquers the audience, in the end it defeats itself. The play can mean so many things that it really means nothing...
Ankle-deep in the heather of a north German moor, the green-clad hunter carefully quartered the area until he found a rabbit hole. Noting fresh tracks, he solemnly commented: "Das ist gut." From a leather pouch on his hip he brought out a sleek, sausage-shaped ferret named Mookie. The three tiny bells on his neck tinkling, Mookie was launched down the rabbit hole. The Jagermeister (hunt master) watched intently as Mookie's master raised his gauntleted left arm and spoke soothingly to the malevolent-looking hawk tethered to his wrist. "Steady, Diana. Steady, pretty girl," whispered...
Mookie, out of sight, worked efficiently. Suddenly, a rabbit bounded out of a nearby hole and fled across the heather in a series of bobtailed bounces, heading straight for a patch of scrub fir trees. Diana spotted the quarry almost instantly. When the rabbit was about 75 yards away, Falconer Wolfgang Stehle suddenly called "Habicht frei" (Hawk free) and released the thong which bound straining Diana to his. wrist. Wings pounding for quick altitude, Diana flashed after the rabbit. Closing fast, she wheeled into a vertical bank between two fir trees and plummeted downward for the strike...
...Scotch is made primarily from barley and gets its flavor from the soft water of Scotland's heather-clad hills, the peat which is burned beneath the green malt, and the sherry casks in which the spirit is matured. Irish whisky is also made from barley (not potatoes as is commonly thought) but with an admixture of other grain, rye, wheat or oats. It is not "smoke cured" and thus keeps its smooth malty flavor...
...very much in Painter Yeats's mind, and he takes his subjects from Ireland's mythology, her countryside and cluttered city streets. His colors come from the purple-brown of Irish bogs, the emeralds and slate greys of Irish seas, the blues of the hills and heather. "An artist may travel the world and paint every imaginable scene," he said once, "but he will never succeed in painting a masterpiece until he takes it out of his own country, out of the place where he was born & bred, the place that is in his blood." The pictures...